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The truth may be resumed in this way:
There is a lowest power of the Soul, a nearest to earth, and this
is interwoven throughout the entire universe: another phase
possesses sensation, while yet another includes the Reason which
is concerned with the objects of sensation: this higher phase
holds itself to the spheres, poised towards the Above but
hovering over the lesser Soul and giving forth to it an effluence
which makes it more intensely vital.
The lower Soul is moved by the higher which, besides encircling
and supporting it, actually resides in whatsoever part of it has
thrust upwards and attained the spheres. The lower then, ringed
round by the higher and answering its call, turns and tends
towards it; and this upward tension communicates motion to the
material frame in which it is involved: for if a single point in
a spheric mass is in any degree moved, without being drawn away
from the rest, it moves the whole, and the sphere is set in
motion. Something of the same kind happens in the case of our
bodies: the unspatial movement of the Soul- in happiness, for
instance, or at the idea of some pleasant event- sets up a
spatial movement in the body: the Soul, attaining in its own
region some good which increases its sense of life, moves towards
what pleases it; and so, by force of the union established in the
order of nature, it moves the body, in the body's region, that is
in space.
As for that phase of the Soul in which sensation is vested, it,
too, takes its good from the Supreme above itself and moves,
rejoicingly, in quest of it: and since the object of its desire
is everywhere, it too ranges always through the entire scope of
the universe.
The Intellectual-Principle has no such progress in any region;
its movement is a stationary act, for it turns upon itself.
And this is why the All, circling as it does, is at the same time
at rest.
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